Full title: Warm climates in earth history / edited by Brian T. Huber, Kenneth G. MacLeod, Scott L. Wing.

Author/creator: Wing, Scott L, Huber, Brian T, MacLeod, Kenneth G., 1964-.

Date: 2000..

Call Numbers: N551.60901/2

Record Identifier: 74Vv8PV8O0dM

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xviii, 462 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 26 cm., Pt. I. Approaches to the study of paleoclimates. 1. Warm climate forcing mechanisms / Paul J. Valdes. 2. Recent advances in paleoclimate modeling: toward better simulations of warm paleoclimates / Robert M. DeConto, Starley L. Thompson and Dave Pollard. 3. Comparison of zonal temperature profiles for past warm time periods / Thomas J. Crowley and James C. Zachos -- Pt. II. Case studies: latest Paleocene-early Eocene. 4. Comparison of early Eocene isotopic paleotemperatures and the three-dimensional OGCM temperature field: the potential for use of model-derived surface water [delta][superscript 18]O / Karen L. Bice, Lisa C. Sloan and Eric J. Barron. 5. Deep-sea environments on a warm earth: latest Paleocene-early Eocene / Ellen Thomas, James C. Zachos and Timothy J. Bralower. 6. Mountains and Eocene climate / Richard D. Norris, Richard M. Corfield and Karen Hayes-Baker., 7. An early Eocene cool period? Evidence for continental cooling during the warmest part of the Cenozoic / Scott L. Wing, Huiming Bao and Paul L. Koch -- Pt. III. Case studies: Mesozoic. 8. Paleontological and geochemical constraints on the deep ocean during the Cretaceous greenhouse interval / Kenneth G. MacLeod, Brian T. Huber and My Le Ducharme. 9. Late Cretaceous climate, vegetation, and ocean interactions / Robert M. DeConto, Esther C. Brady and Jon Bergengren / [et al.]. 10. Jurassic phytogeography and climates: new data and model comparisons / Peter McA. Rees, Alfred M. Ziegler and Paul J. Valdes -- Pt. IV. Case studies: Paleozoic. 11. Permian and Triassic high latitude paleoclimates: evidence from fossil biotas / Edith L. Taylor, Thomas N. Taylor and N. Ruben Cuneo., 12. Organic carbon burial and faunal dynamics in the Appalachian Basin during the Devonian (Givetian-Famennian) greenhouse: an integrated paleoecological and biogeochemical approach / Adam E. Murphy, Bradley B. Sageman and Charles A. Ver Straeten / [et al.]. 13. Glaciation in the early Paleozoic 'greenhouse': the roles of paleogeography and atmospheric CO[subscript 2] / Mark T. Gibbs, Karen L. Bice and Eric J. Barron / [et al.] -- Pt. V. Overview: climate across tectonic timescales. 14. Carbon dioxide and Phanerozoic climate / Thomas J. Crowley.

Publishers: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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